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Contiguous :: Contiguous (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining..

Gimlet :: Gimlet (n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle..

Boring :: Boring (n.) A hole made by boring.

Terebrant :: Terebrant (a.) Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies..

Wimble :: Wimble (n.) An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle..

Auger :: Auger (n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water..

Workless :: Workless (a.) Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless..

Wimble :: Wimble (n.) An auger used for boring in earth.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal..

Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole..

Laboring :: Laboring (a.) Suffering pain or grief.

Belaboring :: Belaboring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belabo.

Saxicavous :: Saxicavous (a.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus..

Vicine :: Vicine (a.) Near; neighboring; vicinal.

Upas :: Upas (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas..

Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects)..

Laboring :: Laboring (a.) That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days..

Malign :: Malign (a.) Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock..

Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.

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